Next, let’s import the extract_text method from pdfminer.high_level.
To download the version of the package we need, you can use pip (note we’re downloading pdfminer.six): pip install pdfminer.six The first package we’ll be using to extract text is pdfminer. First, we’ll just download this file to a local directory and save it as “apple_10k.pdf”. Scraping hightlightable textįor the first example, let’s scrape a 10-k form from Apple ( see here). On the other hand, to read scanned-in PDF files with Python, the pytesseract package comes in handy, which we’ll see later in the post. Pdfminer (specifically pdfminer.six, which is a more up-to-date fork of pdfminer) is an effective package to use if you’re handling PDFs that are typed and you’re able to highlight the text. To read PDF files with Python, we can focus most of our attention on two packages – pdfminer and pytesseract. In this post, we’ll cover how to extract text from several types of PDFs. In a previous article, we talked about how to scrape tables from PDF files with Python.
